 | Francis Bacon - 1860 - 488 էջ
...are deep and not vulgar ; not made upon the spur of a particular occasion for the present, but out of providence of the future ; to make the estate of his people still more and more happy, afier the manner of the legislators in ancient and heroical times. First therefore he made a law suitable... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1860 - 896 էջ
...particular occasion for the present, but out of providence for the future; to make the estate of the people still more and more happy, after the manner of the legislators in ancient and heroic times.' Electoral, as well as other laws, must have their foundation in our knowledge of the... | |
 | William Hickling Prescott - 1868 - 570 էջ
...vulgar ; not made upon the spur of a particular occasion for the present, but out of providence of .he future, to make the estate of his people still more...of the legislators in ancient and heroical times." Hist. of Henry VII., Works, (ed. 1619,) vol. v p. 60. tration. Laws may be received as indicating the... | |
 | Henry Hallam - 1872 - 708 էջ
...vulgar, not made upon the spur of a particular occasion for the present, but out of providence for the future, to make the estate of his people still...of the legislators in ancient and heroical times." But when we consider how very few kings or statesmen have displayed this •prospective wisdom and... | |
 | Thomas Pitt Taswell- Langmead - 1875 - 876 էջ
...vulgar, not made upon the spur of a particular occasion for the present, but out of providence for the future, to make the estate of his people still...of the legislators in ancient and heroical times.'- But this high praise is very inadequately supported by the actual facts. The laws of Henry VII. are... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1875 - 968 էջ
...occasion for the present, but oat of providence for the future, to make the estate of hii people Btill more and more happy, after the manner of the legislators in ancient and heroical times." — Bacnn'i Works, rol. iii., p. •3.1 edition 1834. f deserves not that his gray hairs should secure... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1876 - 364 էջ
...are deep, and not vulgar; not made upon the spur of a particular occasion for the present, but out of providence of the future, to make the estate of...of the legislators in ancient and heroical times. . 30 First therefore he made a law, suitable to his own acts and times : for as himself had in his... | |
 | Henry Hallam - 1876 - 756 էջ
...not made upon the f'"«« spur of a particular occasion for tlin present, but out of providence for the future, to make the estate of his people still...after the manner of the legislators in ancient and heroico! times." But when we consider how very few kings or statesmen have displayed this prospective... | |
 | William Worth Belknap - 1876 - 1180 էջ
...particular occasion for the preseut, but out of providence for the future, to make the estate of the people more and more happy, after the manner of the legislators in ancient and heroical times. When you approach this part of the subject, you are compelled to look tip with an awful reverence,... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1877 - 782 էջ
...are deep, and not vulgar ; not made upon the spur of a particular occasion for the present, but out of providence of the future, to make the estate of...of the legislators in ancient and heroical times. First, therefore, he made a law, suitable to his own acts and times : for as himself had in his person... | |
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Certainly his times for good commonwealth's laws did excel. So as he may justly be celebrated for the best lawgiver to this nation, after king Edward the First: for his laws, whoso marks them well, are deep, and not vulgar; not made upon the spur of a... 
